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the Guardian

Eyewitness: Flamethrower | World news | guardian.co.uk

Little more than a photo caption survives from this saved item: a Guardian Eyewitness image by Skarphedinn Thrainsson showing lava erupting from an Icelandic volcano. The caption notes that he regularly risks injury from falling rocks and lava to get his shots, and the picture was distributed through Caters News Agency. There's no accompanying text or argument, so the piece is distinguished only by the photographer's name and the Iceland eruption subject, and it was likely worth keeping as a striking image rather than for any reporting.

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madeatgloria.com

Readability

Black, Brown, and Beige — www.newyorker.com — Readability

What was saved appears to be a blog index page rather than a single article: a list of a dozen unrelated posts by Lynn Martelli from mid-September 2026, with only titles and opening lines visible. Topics range from choosing Mr Fog vape products, a Houston rideshare accident law firm, and automation's effect on workplace injury rates and workers' comp, to PPC budgeting, Dutch IPTV versus cable, UX color-contrast accessibility, Virginia Beach car repair, guest posting marketplaces, TV dashboards, and oral surgery referrals. If you meant to keep one particular piece, you'll need to go back and save its own URL, since nothing here shows what any single post actually argues.

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Readability

Black, Brown, and Beige - Readability

What was saved appears to be a blog's index or archive page rather than a single article, listing a dozen unrelated posts by Lynn Martelli from mid-September 2026. The topics range from choosing Mr Fog vape products, a Houston rideshare accident law firm, and automation's effect on workplace injury rates and workers' comp insurance to PPC budgeting, Dutch IPTV versus cable, UX color contrast, Virginia Beach car repair, guest posting marketplaces, TV dashboards, and oral surgery referrals. Only the headlines and opening lines are visible, so there is no real argument to recover, and you'd need to go back to the specific post you meant to keep.

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masonry.desandro.com

jQuery Masonry

This is the installation and quick-start page for Masonry v4, the JavaScript grid-layout library. It covers getting the script via direct download, the unpkg CDN, Bower, or npm (`masonry-layout`). It then shows the basic setup: a container with child items sized in your own CSS, initialized through jQuery (`$('.grid').masonry()`), vanilla JS (`new Masonry(elem, options)`), or a `data-masonry` HTML attribute holding JSON options. The page notes that the older v3 `js-masonry` and `data-masonry-options` markup still works in v4, and that the library is MIT licensed.

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benalman.com

Ben Alman » jQuery doTimeout: Like setTimeout, but better

jQuery doTimeout is a roughly 1kb plugin (v1.0, tested on jQuery 1.3.2/1.4.2 across IE6-8 and other browsers of the era) that wraps setTimeout with its own internal cache of ids and callbacks, so you can name a timeout and later cancel it, override it, or force it to run immediately without tracking handles yourself. Returning true from the callback turns it into a polling loop that repeats until the callback returns false, and reusing the same id on rapid events like keyup or window resize gives debouncing for free. It is also chainable on jQuery collections, so you can schedule a method call on elements (e.g. removeClass after two seconds) or step through them one at a time, and the page points to docs, unit tests, and examples for hover intent, delays, polling and debouncing.

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Freakonomics

Freakonomics » Ten More Reasons You Need to Quit Your Job Right Now!

James Altucher follows up his earlier "Ten Reasons You Need to Quit Your Job" by arguing that the 90% of people who dislike their work should start planning an exit now, not just recognize that they could leave. His reasons include the collapse of the corporate-ladder promise after 2008, the idea that homeownership and college savings are unnecessary pressures, bad bosses and coworkers, and a coming economic boom driven by money printing. He admits that quitting on impulse is reckless, so he likens it to Olympic training and points to his other posts on preparing, finding your "frontier," and testing it before you leave.

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Imgur

CardObserver

Subtle Patterns

Subtle Patterns | High quality patterns for your next web project

This is a page from a gallery of free downloadable tileable background patterns, not an article with an argument. It lists entries from mid-2015 to late 2016, each with a short blurb, a creator credit, and a download link. Several are by Olga Libby, including the Japanese seigaiha (wave), asanoha and sayagata designs, which are traditional motifs tied to kimono and good luck. Others are more whimsical, like a pattern scanned from a cork wallet, a New Year tree, blue weather, colorful waves and diagonal fabric. It's worth keeping as a source of pattern assets for decorating websites, especially the Japanese-inspired ones.

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www.mytvrss.com

Marginal REVOLUTION

Electric Roads — Marginal Revolution

Proposes moving energy storage from the vehicle to the roadway: charging pads buried under asphalt and wired to the grid would transfer power wirelessly to electric vehicles as they drive. Researchers say this continuous supply could shrink EV batteries by up to 80 percent, sharply cutting vehicle cost and in principle allowing cross-country trips without stopping to charge. The excerpt centers on Utah State researcher Hunter Wu, who came from the University of Auckland, where the technology originated, to develop it further.

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Creative Bloq

Build a Twitter app with jQuery Mobile | Blog | Web Designer

What was saved is a Creative Bloq homepage or section listing from 21 September 2026, not a single article, so there's no one argument to recover. The front-page stories include a recommendation of the HP Omen Max 16 (RTX 5080) as a surprisingly good Blender and UE5 machine, Autodesk's Maurice Patel arguing AI won't replace human animators despite a continuity error in the company's own AI film, and a piece on Laika's stop-motion as the antidote to the AI era. It also covers Affinity 3.3's blend tool, RAW overhaul and scripting studio as Canva's push against Adobe, and a Converse ad pulled over racism allegations. The rest is mostly art-supply and tech deals, plus pieces on Blender 5.3's Gaussian splat support, the "AI slop" terminology debate, and a Silent Hill Townfall review. If you meant to keep one story, it will need to be saved separately by its own link.

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Freakonomics

Freakonomics » Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

A 2011 write-up of an Alesina (Harvard) and La Ferrara (Bocconi) study that looks for racial bias in U.S. first-degree capital sentences from 1973 to 1995. It uses the fact that all such sentences are automatically appealed, and treats reversals as a measure of trial-court error, on the assumption that higher courts can only correct bias, not add it. Death sentences for minority defendants who killed white victims were reversed more often than those for minority defendants who killed minority victims (37.5% vs. 28.4% at the habeas stage, 37.7% vs. 34.7% on direct appeal), with the gap driven largely by Southern states and no significant effect for white defendants.

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siteinspire.net

Home - Web design inspiration from siteInspire

This is the "about us" page for a US-focused crypto gambling review site, led by journalist Yvonne Strickler, who has eleven years covering digital finance and online gambling. It says the site evaluates Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoin casinos on deposit handling, withdrawal speed, whether provably fair claims are genuine, and licensing, while tracking state-level US regulation. It describes its reviews as hands-on and independent, and discloses that it earns affiliate revenue from some reviewed platforms while claiming that this doesn't influence ratings. It's a statement of the site's credentials and method, not a guide or a review, so it's worth keeping mainly as a reference for judging how much to trust the site's recommendations.

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